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You pay off devices early Right now, China is outmaneuvering Donald Trump so thoroughly, so completely, I would say brilliantly. But really what they're just doing is listening to the advice from the legendary Chinese philosopher and military strategist Sun Tzu, who said, don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake. And boy, is the United States making the biggest mistake ever. The biggest mistake first was bringing Donald Trump in the first time. Donald Trump's policies were an utter disaster. His isolationist policies and weakness even allowed China to establish diplomatic ties with nations in Central America, South America, Africa, and across the world. Let's not forget that China established diplomatic ties with Panama during the first Trump administration, and Panama rejected its relationship with Taiwan. So for Donald Trump to now be complaining about, oh well, Panama is being so influenced by China, well, Donald Trump, that was all happening during your administration. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 1 Then America brings Trump back. What does Trump do? Instantly, he starts attacking all of our allies, threatening the sovereignty of nations like Denmark, which Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Donald Trump continues to say he wants to make Canada the 51st state state or else. Donald Trump threatening to invade and attack Panama. Donald Trump threatening to punish and tariff Mexico. Donald Trump pulling the United States out of critical international organizations that look to the United States as the leader. The United States has withdrawn from the World Health Organization. The United States has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States is weakening NATO as it threatens its NATO allies. Who is this all benefiting? It is benefiting China. When you see maps like this of the World Health Organization map right now, and America is like the only country that's not part of it, it is deeply humiliating. And China knows what's up. They're putting out statements that are just going above and beyond to say, we believe in all nations sovereignty. We support the sovereignty of this nation and that nation. We want to establish real, respectful, diplomatic international relations to empower cultural significance of these nations. And they're also saying, we are so committed to the World Health Organization and we're so committed to building bridges across the world, both literally and figuratively. And they're doing that because it is the perfect juxtaposition to how erratic and harmful Donald Trump is being with the sledgehammer he's using to try to harm international relations. This is the exact moment China was waiting for, and they're taking advantage of it. Um, so, for example, China responds right away when Donald Trump withdraws from the World Health Organization and says, China is committed to leading the World Health Organization. Quote, china will, as always, support the WHO in fulfilling its responsibilities and work towards building a shared community of health for humanity, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson. Quote, for China, the role of the WHO should not, should only be strengthened, never weakened. He added. And then China's minister says, quote, climate change is a common challenge faced by all of humanity. Quote, no country can remain unaffected or solve the problem on its own. China will work with all parties to actively address the challenges of climate change. You see that language right there? Now you may go, well, that's just CCP propaganda. Well, China is at least playing the game. However you want to view it. China understands the importance of international relations, to be very careful with your language, to be respectful of other nations, and to not look like a barbaric, ignorant, zombified nation imploding from within, the way the United States looks right now with Donald Trump. So however you view these statements, they're speaking the language of diplomacy and international relations, and they're doing it in a profoundly overt way to also stick their thumb in the faces of the United States. Who's losing international credibility. Look, right now, China is leading the world in green energy production. President Biden saw what was going on. That's why we have the Inflation Reduction act, the Infrastructure act, the CHIPS act, which brought the semiconductor industry here to the United States. Under Biden, the United States economy was actually growing faster than China because we were focused on alliance building and bringing these industries here and growing them. Unlike the MAGA Republicans and Trump, who if anything, has the word green in front of it, they go, all that socialism, that's Marxism. Green this, green that, that's big business. And it was actually helping red states almost more than blue states as well. And so Trump's policies are going to screw up red states.